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I Will Not Betray You Pt. 2If you know me at all, especially if you’ve been (un)-fortunate to live with me, you know my post-conscious mind makes no sense.
I often wake to find things….let’s just say “in a state”.
I’m well versed in the puzzled comments of roommates trying to decipher my ‘on the way to bed’ activities.
Regardless, twilight activity is strong in my family and so it goes…..
I wake to find notes and images I’ve left to myself fairly often.

This week had two images and some phrases.
This is more or less the image I discovered when I woke, except that the original had wings on the spoon.
I’m still working on part 1.

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SashikoNot very inspired lately.
Thought I’d hand draw something.
This is what the last two Los Campesinos albums on repeat inspired throughout the day.

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What's Left To Believe InI was asked when I was very young if I would like to make some easy money at the next State Fair.
A thousand dollars sounds like a mountain of gold and unlimited possibilities when you are a kid.
I said yes.
In the end, there was no money, it certainly wasn’t easy and I was traumatized for a very long time.
After that summer, “easy money” was no longer something I sought out.

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It's Alright That You Don't Speak The LanguageThe way some of these cuts happen can be so coincidental that I am often bewildered how a feeling and the end result can be such separate things.
I woke up in a pretty good mood today and wanted to listen to the Orwells while I was getting  ready.
The song ‘Lays At Rest’ came on and I couldn’t figure out some of the lyrics.
Over breakfast I decided to look at their website to see if it had a lyrics section.
It didn’t but on their news page there was an announcement that they were playing on this years Weezer cruise.
This caught me off guard because the last time I was in Chicago I was talking about that very random event.
Thoughts of the conversation stayed with me for awhile and eventually passed as I rushed to get out the door.
On the drive to work I caught myself humming ‘My Head Is In The Sun’ by the Rentals (who I always preferred over Weezer).
I decided to put on their second album (which I think is great & I haven’t heard in ages) while I was doing my morning postal chores.
When the aforementioned song came on, for some reason after hearing the lyrics, I thought of the above image.

And that’s how a catchy pop/punk song about a murder/suicide leads to a song about escaping emotions that leads to art about happily making offerings even though they are misunderstood.

Anyway, in my head, that’s how it played out.

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Goodnight CottonNot a very uplifting past few days. Politically, socially, personally and meteorologically speaking.
All that, AND I forgot to celebrate Bastille Day. What’s next…..
Still doing miniatures. I bought 19 frames to put 10 of these in yesterday.
Probably wont sell this one.
Hell On Wheels Season 2 arrived from Netflix today. Season 1 was so awful I’m not really certain why I put it in the queue.
Live and learn. At least the power in my house stayed on.

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I Guess This Is The EndStrange things happen when melancholy music shuffles on to your i-pod on a melancholy Friday.
Believe it or not, this is based on a Suede b-side.
Perhaps it’s time to question why I have old Suede b-sides on my i-pod in the first place.

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Why Love AnythingI’m not sure who is to blame when happiness unexpectedly kills joy.
I’m not feeling overly wordy about these two right now.